Medico-Legal Work

Dr Sleyster has a broad range of experience in providing comprehensive expert assessments and reports of adolescents in the Secure Estate and in the complex and sensitive area of child care and Care Proceedings in the Family Court.

She can assist the Local Authority, Guardians, Independent Reviewing Officers, Court and parents with an independent expert service that provides assessments and reports, advice and recommendations, and specialist therapeutic interventions.

The medico-legal work may involve assessments of:

Children’s emotional world, world view and needs

Children’s life-choices and understanding of risk

The impact of trauma, neglectful and abusive parenting on children

The quality of infant/children/adolescents attachments to siblings and parents/carers